Heroin has killed (or ruined the lives of) more people than the terrorists we are seeking have to date - do I need to find links to support my claim that heroin is bad?
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The fields in question are poppy fields not heroin fields(granted heroin can be made from the poppy plants but it isn't always the case), are you against all opiates or just naturally occurring ones? I don't understand the amount of hipocracy involved in this "war on drugs", let's spend billions and billions of dollars to erradicate a plant that people in other countries are growing(I wonder how we would react if a foriegn country flew over the US and fire bombed our fields), then spend billions more to purchase synthetic opiates from the really big drug dealers such as phizer, etc;, why can't we purchase the poppy plants and use them for our "needed" drugs such as loratab, vicadin, oxycontin, demoral, morphine(none of those have ever been abused have they?) and on and on, instead of the need to get rid of a plant, which is then just replaced with a synthetic version, if opiates are really that bad let's get rid of all opiates even the ones made by the government protected phamacutical companies.
I recently read Lone Survivor about about a special forces team that got detected and damn near eliminated, as the title suggests there was only one survivor of the team. It was interesting to me that the subject of the book stated that he was raised to believe that drugs were for losers, but after he had been taken in by some afgan villagers and kept hidden from the enemy even with the threat that the village was going to pay severely for their aid of the american soldier, he was in terrible pain and the villagers brought in an opium paste and administered it to him, after which he said he was feeling great. He also stated after he was rescued that the morphine the rescuers had given him was not even close to as effective as the paste the villagers had given him. I would like to mention that the villagers that saved him were the same drug growers people have stated we need to get rid of, I bet Marcus Lattrell might disagree since he wouldn't even be alive today if not for some of those "evil" plant growers and he wouldn't of been as comfortable while he was there if not for the "evil" poppy plant.
Just like it is not the gun but the human using the gun that is to blame for abuses commited by a gun, its not the plant or drug that is to blame it is the person that is abusing them that is to blame.
